Wednesday, a Daily Wire investigation blew open the doors of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service — never heard of it? yeah, me neither — a 60-employee tax sewer that went basically unnoticed until Trump slashed it last week. Apparently, its employees lived so lavishly in their K-Street palazzo that the descriptions read like satire. Smoking lounge and gym? Check. Buying “art” from the director’s wife? Yup. Thousands spent on jewelry, BMWs, and all-expenses-paid “business trips”? All yes — and no one knows what these people were even supposed to do. “They were reigning kings,” one fired employee said of his former bosses, who successfully flouted corruption investigations for years. It’s almost too absurd to believe: a taxpayer-funded resort with a bottomless Mai Tai budget? White Lotus DC sounds pretty nice, even if it’s missing the beach. And I hope they enjoyed their stay — because we all know how that story ends.

The recent bird flu outbreak has wiped out over 150 million chickens, driving egg prices sky-high and throwing the U.S. poultry industry into crisis. But proposed solutions range from impractical to deranged. RFK Jr. suggests we let the virus rip through flocks unmitigated, in hopes of finding naturally immune chickens, which is a great way to maximize mutations and let it (potentially) morph into a version that easily jumps to humans. The government’s alternative? A vaccine that would require injecting every single chicken individually and could instantly wipe out billions of dollars in poultry exports (because most of the world won’t buy vaccinated birds). So, friends, we’ve got three choices: mass culling, economic distress, or a biological time bomb. None of which work for me. Sorry, looks like the e-girl trad influencers were right — it’s time to go off-grid, get some (non-plague-ridden) chickens, and embrace the cottagecore lifestyle.

Ben & Jerry’s has accused its parent company Unilever of forcing the ouster of CEO David Stever over his commitment to the ice cream brand’s social activism. According to a recent court filing, Unilever reprimanded Stever for “repeatedly acquiesce[ing] to the demands of the Independent Social Mission board” at Ben & Jerry’s, and even prevented them (again: an ice cream company) from making social media posts commemorating Black History Month and supporting pro-Palestine demonstrations. Okay. I gotta ask: are you guys really in a position to be doing politics right now? This is the era of Ozempic and RFK, you should be happy your company even exists. Five years ago you might’ve gotten away with a little “Greta Thunberg’s Mean Green Pistachio” or whatever, but it’s 2025. Your lonely MSNBC cat moms are all shooting GLP-1’s, and the George Floyd tweets aren’t gonna eat your slop. Time to listen to your corporate overlords.

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